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Tim Waterstone wants to avoid the slush pile with Read Petite, his new digital imprint

Susan Lulgjuraj — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 17:29:54 +0000

Tim Waterstone is embarking on a new e-book project. It kind of involves owning a bookstore again. Sort of. Waterstone talked about his new venture, Read Petite, with The Guardian this week. It will be officially announced to the public at the London Book Fair next week. Read Petite is a digital imprint for short-form e-books. [...]

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An Update on Waterstones Academy

Dan Eldridge — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 21:14:49 +0000

You may remember a post we ran last Monday about Waterstones Academy, a sort of university for retail booksellers that looks as if it may be launching in England sometime later this year. Waterstones, for those of you not familiar with the name, is a UK-based bookstore chain with some 288 locations dotted throughout the UK [...]

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Meet Waterstones Academy, a college for booksellers

Dan Eldridge — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 17:30:40 +0000

The Bookseller recently published what appears to be a very interesting article about a sort of bookseller’s university that Waterstones—the UK-based bookstore chain—plans to open at some point in the near-to-distant future. And I use the term “appears,” by the way, because the article in question in available only to subscribers of the website’s premium [...]

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Thanks to E-Books Sales in the UK, Bloomsbury Looks Bullish

Dan Eldridge — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 21:39:55 +0000

Along with the Financial Times, The Telegraph, and The Guardian, just about every UK-based newspaper that covers the publishing industry ran the sort of ‘E-Books Will Save Us!’ story yesterday that seems forehead-slappingly obvious at first glance … and yet is nevertheless rather comforting to read—especially considering that the good news has been officially confirmed with [...]

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In Italy, Train Passengers Now Enjoy Free E-Books

Dan Eldridge — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 19:09:51 +0000

If you’re the type who regularly follows international news of the ever-expanding e-book scene, you may have already heard about the unusual business collaboration between the Italian book publishing company known as RSC Libri, and the Italian train company, ITV. The partnership, which was announced at The Bookseller’s FutureBook 2012 conference in London, and which has been [...]

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Should bookstores be able to raise book prices?

Chris Meadows — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 17:20:52 +0000

On The Bookseller’s blog, Ed Handyside of UK publisher Myrmidon Books complains that the price of a standard paperback in the UK has not risen with inflation—six years ago it was £7.99, and today it is still £7.99 (US$10.52). Since the publisher’s recommended retail price is printed on the cover of the book, this means [...]

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Why no more posts from The Bookseller?

Paul Biba — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 14:59:53 +0000

The UK publication, The Bookseller, used to be an excellent source of information for readers of TeleRead. However, that is no longer true. The Bookseller has gone behind a paywall, and an expensive paywall at that. £186 for a digital subscription. Since I no longer have access to their news I can’t bring it to [...]

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Literary agent Caradoc King: 25% vs. 50% e-royalty rates give agents tough choices

Chris Meadows — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 16:20:17 +0000

The Bookseller has a commentary column from Caradoc King, chairman and joint managing director of prestigious literary agency A P Watt. King reflects on the quandaries that the new digital age brings with it, questions for which one would expect such an agency to have ready answers—but that remain pernicious even today. A number of [...]

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You can’t tell an e-book by its cover

Chris Meadows — Mon, 23 May 2011 15:42:56 +0000

On The Bookseller, Damian Horner notes that the rise of e-books means a fall in the prominence of the book cover, and ponders what that will mean for the industry. (We’ve covered this ourselves a time or two.) He points out that, until the e-book era, we were able to see what our fellow passengers [...]

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More books published every year due to POD and digital publishing

Chris Meadows — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 16:54:53 +0000

The Bookseller reports that a Nielsen Book study shows that the number of new books being published every year is steadily rising, due largely to the influence of digital and print-on-demand publishing. Of course, this figure comes from the ISBNs that Nielsen issues; if the number of books published without ISBNs (offered for sale directly [...]

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Digital helps shape The Bookseller 100

Paul Biba — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 14:46:59 +0000

That’s the title of an article in The Bookseller today. The increasing importance of digital publishing has been a strong influence on the new entrants to The Bookseller 100, the definitive list of the most influential people in the book trade. Thirty-six new names have graced the 100, which is heavily influenced by the changing [...]

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FutureBook survey says 47% of respondents bought an ebook

Paul Biba — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 14:53:29 +0000

The 2010 survey was completed by 2,600 respondents and 47% of them had paid for an ebook – up from 18% last year. 80% of respondents said that they had read an ebook and this is up from about 40% last year. But Jones warned that booksellers were being left behind in the race for [...]

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Bookseller’s annual Children’s Conference to be held on September 30

Paul Biba — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 12:42:05 +0000

From the release: This year’s conference will start with an overview of the children’s book world in 2010; what sold, what didn’t, and what’s still to come. We’ll go on to discuss the impact of emerging technologies on the industry and where children’s books fit into the digital landscape. Find out from experts in the [...]

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